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Paul
Grubachof Ohio
thinks, Friday, July 27, 2007, that he has
discovered a minor conformist concession about
Himmler's Posen speech of 1943.

Himmler's
Posen speech of 1943

IN the summer of 2006 Professor
Jeffrey Herf published his book, The
Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II
and the Holocaust (Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press). It has been said this is one of
the most important books on the Holocaust in the
past decade.

I would like to bring to your attention an
admission by Professor Herf that actually
corroborates the revisionist thesis of Dr.
Arthur Butz.

In October of 1943, Heinrich Himmler
delivered a speech in Posen, in occupied Poland.
This speech is considered by many to be absolute
proof that the Nazis had a policy to exterminate
all the Jews of Europe, primarily through the use
of homicidal gas chambers.

Let us assume that Himmler really did make the
comments attributed to him. Here is the key passage
in question:

"I [Himmler] am now referring
to the evacuation of the Jews, to the
extermination of the Jewish people. This is
something that is easily said: 'The Jewish
people will be exterminated,' says every Party
member, 'this is very obvious, it is in our
program -- elimination of the Jews,
extermination will do.'"

Himmler continued: "Most of you here know what
it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other,
when 500 lie there or when 1,000 are lined up. To
have endured this and at the same time to have
remained a descent person...has made us tough."

Herf writes that in this speech, "Himmler
referred only to the early methods of the
Einsatzgruppen murders and said nothing
about the death camps, gas chambers, and crematoria
[p.233]."

Herf is admitting that Himmler is referring only
to the mass shootings of Jews that took place on
the Eastern Front, and this speech says nothing at
all about the alleged "death camps, gas chambers,
and crematoria."

As far back as the early 1970s, Arthur Butz made
the important revisionist point that the only part
of the extermination legend that contains a
particle of truth is that the Einsatzgruppen
exterminated some Russian Jews by mass shootings
(See Hoax of the Twentieth Century,
p.241).

Professor Butz wrote:

"At the time of the invasion of Russia
in June 1941, there was a Führer order
declaring, in anticipation of an identical
Soviet policy, that the war with Russia was not
to be fought on the basis of the traditional
rules of warfare. Necessary measures were to be
taken to counter partisan activity, and Himmler
was given the power to 'act independently upon
his own responsibility.' Everybody knew that
meant executions of partisans and persons
collaborating with partisans. The dirty task was
assigned to four
Einsatzgruppen which had a total of
about 3,000 men We have had occasion to
note in several instances that the Jews did, in
fact, pose a security menace to the German rear
in the war The task of the
Einsatzgruppen was to deal with such
dangers [anti-German partisan and guerrilla
warfare] by all necessary means, so we need
not be told much more to surmise that the
Einsatzgruppen must have shot many Jews,
although we do not know whether 'many' means
5,000, 25,000 or 100,000. Naturally, many
non-Jews were also executed (pp. 241-242)."

Herf is now admitting that Himmler is referring
to only the mass shootings of Jews by the
Einsatzgruppen on the Eastern Front,
something that was never denied by Holocaust
revisionists. The secret police chief was not
referring to the alleged Hitler "gas chambers" and
accompanying crematoria, and the so-called
extermination camps. So, this passage cannot be
used by orthodox Holocaust historians to "prove"
that the Nazis had a policy to exterminate Jews in
"gas chambers."